Thomas Sutton
Principal Consultant at Simple Machines Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Sutton is a Principal Consultant based in Sydney with 17 years building reliable, maintainable software across strongly typed functional languages (Haskell, Scala) and traditional web stacks (primarily Drupal/PHP). He blends back-end engineering, systems administration and big-data experience—having implemented Scala-based analytics on Hadoop at Commonwealth Bank and Haskell REST APIs at Anchor Hosting. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the popular Haskell servant library to better handle HTTP errors and content types, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics and robust APIs. His training spans computing, math and accessibility, and he pairs that technical depth with practical ops skills (Debian, Docker, OpenStack). Outside engineering he pursues formal study in spirits and sake, an uncommon interest that hints at a meticulous, craft-oriented approach to problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
WSET Level 3 Aware in Sake, WSET Level 3 Aware in Sake at Wine & Spirit Education TrustGraduate Certificate, Mathematics, Graduate Certificate, Mathematics at Charles Sturt UniversityBachelor of Computing, Computing, Bachelor of Computing, Computing at University of TasmaniaGeneral Certificate, Distilling, General Certificate, Distilling at Institute of Brewing & DistillingProfessional Certificate in Web Accessibility Compliance, High Distinction, Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility Compliance, High Distinction at University of South AustraliaCertificate II in Applied Language, Japanese, Certificate II in Applied Language, Japanese at Central Institute of TechnologyDiploma of IT, Network Engineering, Diploma of IT, Network Engineering at TAFE Tasmania
Github Skills (5)
servant10
haskell10
api-design10
aeson8
fest5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
haskell-servant/servant
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Servant is a Haskell DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 12 comments, 2 issues in 24 days
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the `servant` Haskell library, enhancing its functionality and documentation. They added features such as a `RouteMismatch` constructor for handling HTTP errors and expanded content-type support in examples. The commits involved modifications to core library files, example code, and project configuration, focusing on improving the API's usability and documentation generation. These changes suggest a focus on refining the library's core features and user experience.
dslhaskellmocking
simple-machines/kafka-tunnel
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Access kafka/zookeeper in your AWS cloud via ssh tunnel to consume and produce messages
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
aws-cloudkafkassh-tunnelzookeeper
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